You take the first trick in dummy.

Firstly you should start to draw trumps retaining dummy’s Ace in case you need to finesse the 9 later.

After drawing one round of trumps you discover the awful break and now you must try and generate an extra trick from ruffing a Diamond in your hand (the short hand). Without much ado you play the Diamond King which West takes and now plays a second Spade. You win the second Spade and now take your Diamond ruff carefully ruffing high just in case West is out of Diamonds and then proceed to draw the last three trumps finessing West’s 10.

Now you give up a Spade and claim.

You have carefully made 3 Spades, 5 Hearts, 1 established Diamond, 1 Diamond ruffed and 1 Club.

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